"We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people."

-- Wilma Mankiller

#Thanksgiving Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.”
“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”

Source : Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.51, Faber & Faber
“I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away....”
“I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.”

Source : "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview With Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.
“So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.”

Source : Don E. Saliers, Emily Saliers (2005). “A song to sing, a life to live: reflections on music as spiritual practice”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
“Strategy is the craft of the warrior.”
“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.”
“Hide from change and it will hide from you”

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